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DORSETT v. DORSETT

No. 5738.

281 A.2d 290 (1971)

Carolyn DORSETT, Appellant, v. Eugene A. DORSETT, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 22, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Intrater, Washington, D. C., with whom Albert Brick, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

J. Leon Williams, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before FICKLING, KERN and REILLY, Associate Judges.

REILLY, Associate Judge:

In a decree for divorce obtained by the husband on the ground of one year's voluntary separation,1 the court awarded custody of the parties' eight-year-old son (an only child) to the husband. The wife's appeal is directed solely to the custodial portion of the decree.

The parties were married in 1961, and their child, Eric, was born the following year. The couple and the boy lived together in an apartment...

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